Patrick Demarchelier is a master photographer whose images capture an often surprising and spontaneous vitality in even the most powerful icons of beauty and culture. Perhaps his best-known photographs are his portraits of Diana, taken with her sons, which helped to establish her as ‘the people’s Princess.’
For more than three decades, Demarchelier’s images have helped define nearly every major fashion magazine including American, British and French Vogue, as well as Vanity Fair and W. He has also created advertising images for clients including Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Armani, Valentino, L’Oréal, Tiffany and Harry Winston.
His first book, Patrick Demarchelier: Fashion Photography, was published in 1989 and has been followed by publications including FORMS, Photographs, and Exposing Elegance. Among the awards that have been bestowed upon Demarchelier are the CFDA Founder’s Award in Honor of Eleanor Lambert in 2007 as well as being declared an Officier de L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, that same year.
In the fall of 2008, Le Petit Palais Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, presented a comprehensive selection of 400 of Demarchelier’s photographs in a widely acclaimed exhibition.
Since 2010, Demarchelier has been in collaboration with Dior, resulting in two books and several exhibitions. Dior Couture was published in 2011 and Dior: New Couture was released in November 2014. An exhibition, Dior Couture, was presented in Moscow in 2013 at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall and later that year, Esprit Dior was exhibited at MoCA Shanghai. Most recently, Esprit Dior was also on view in Tokyo, Japan from the end of last year until early 2015.
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